Suburbia: "The Whole Kit and Kaboodle"
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Prefabrication of housing has always existed in the realm of surburbia. In fact, there may be reason to blame for the replication of homes throughout many neighborhoods. This system of prefabrication has been abused, becoming a lie to innocent home owners. Prefab homes are synthetically overdone, making materiality nothing but a mere aesthetic of unpleasant value than function itself. It is time to take prefabrication to new heights, alongside the sustainability of homes.
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Prefabrication in itself is a strategy. The system from which the homes would be derived depends on economical demand, in which it has from the start. Fast production, sustainable materiality, unique and dependent designs set for your specific family. There are too many perks to defy not living in such a home. It is a concept seen everywhere today, but the complexity has off tracked into high expense and ugliness. Materiality holds such importance in the success story of prefabrication. Frank Lloyd Wright and many other infamous architects envisioned a world of prefabricated homes made of natural materiality. Such decisions with material can affect the production of certain resources however this is where intelligence within designing can come into effect. Modularity, for example, holds great against the fluctuation of a home, creating a family identity that can last for years to come. Prefabrication must rewind back to a simplistic version of home design, where all of society can accept a sustainable and practical home for their family.
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Your idea of digressing the mindset and overall ideals of suburban homes and communities to a simpler time is very interesting. I agree that that may help society break out of the current suburban mindset and be more open to better alternatives. Our society has tunnel-vision when it comes to what homes and neighborhoods should look like as opposed to being concerned with the functionality of the home and surrounding areas. Homes can be functional, sustainable, easy/quick to build AND beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIn your first paragraph, it may help the reader if you briefly hint at how prefab and sustainable homes can be "taken to new heights." In your second paragraph, you write "FLW and many other infamous architects..." Infamous has a negative connotation and from what I can tell, you don't mean that FLW and other architects are famous for all the negative designs and ideas they created. If you do mean this, it would be helpful if you explained why they are "infamous." If you are trying to get across the idea that they are famous for positive designs, I would suggest using a word such as celebrated, prominent or renowned. Overall, I think it's an awesome topic and can't wait to read more!!
kim great comments. lauren, just slow down in the writing and really read it out loud. i think it is best to start even mentioning le corbusier modular home as the beginning of 20th century prefab homes with the dom-ino frame. it has become more off the shelf...then a system of ideals that are to be used as a foundation for setting one INTO a landscape [FLW] and use materiality for reasons of regionalism...context...and sustainable idea.s
ReplyDeletefine tooth...from prefabrication has splintered into a more unattainable expensive option for the upper-middle class to the off-the shelf homes of convenience and ease led by mis-guided market research [suburban nation reading] & dominated by only a few NATIONAL home building chains [developer's utopia, week 2]